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Few issues resonate with U.S. voters more deeply than price increases, and the latest inflationary upswing is unsettling key insiders at the White House worried about their Republican Party’s prospects in critical midterm elections less than seven months away.

BEIJING (Reuters) — Oil prices rose on Thursday on investors’ concerns supply from the key Middle East producing region may ​not fully resume amid doubts the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran will ‌hold and as the crucial Strait of Hormuz remains restricted.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Oil prices dived, stocks surged and the dollar was knocked back on ​Wednesday as a two-week Middle East ceasefire sparked a relief rally, fueled by hopes that oil and gas flows through the Strait ‌of Hormuz could resume.

Research shows that for many business owners as much as 70% or more of their personal wealth is tied up in their companies, making decisions about succession, transition, and continuity deeply personal as well as financial.

(Reuters) — U.S. stock index futures inched ​higher on Monday, after the main indexes marked their biggest weekly jump in four ‌months in the last session, as investors assessed prospects of an end to the Middle East conflict.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. job growth rebounded more than expected in March as a strike by healthcare workers ended and temperatures warmed up, but downside risks for the labor market are mounting from a war with Iran that has no clear end in sight.

(Reuters) — Futures tracking Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Thursday ​in the last session of a holiday-truncated week after President Donald Trump signaled more aggressive attacks on Iran, dampening ‌expectations for a swift end to the Middle East conflict.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Stocks and bonds rallied and the dollar wallowed at the ‌start of the Asian trading session on Wednesday on hopes of a de-escalation in the Iran conflict, while significantly better-than-expected economic data for March propelled a rebound in Korean and Japanese shares.

FOR Philippine Airlines, a carrier whose history traces the earliest days of commercial aviation in Asia nearly a century ago, the return to Saipan is both a continuation and a milestone — restoring a direct link between the Northern Mariana Islands and Manila while adding the CNMI’s principal econ…

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Monday said the U.S. central ​bank can wait to see how the Iran war affects the economy and inflation, noting that policymakers typically look through shocks such as those from higher oil prices.